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The term ‘worker’ has emerged with the dawn of capitalism. It lexically means a person who maintains a living with wages earned from selling labor. Commonly, people conjure up the image of workers who are working at factories or construction sites. However, worker includes a person who works in various forms for financial returns like an office job, education job, police and etc. Likewise, the productive activities that are routinely completed for a living are called ‘industry.’ The word includes various fields like agriculture, fishing, manufacturing, construction, distribution, insurance, service industries, and etc. | |
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Let’s find out more about labeling games through the book Trend 2021 by Kim Nan-do, a professor of department of Consumer Affairs at Seoul National University. The labeling game is a new trend where labels are ascribed to certain people to describe their personalities. The labeling games include the MBTI test, the boomer level test, and the university department test. | |
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Recently, starting with Bitcoin which caused a worldwide sensation, many people became interested in cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency is electric information that is encoded with blockchain technology and distributed so that people can use the coin as a real currency in some networks. Almost everyone would have heard about ‘Bitcoin,’ one of the cryptocurrencies. Especially nowadays, young investors in their 20-30s are increasing. Bitcoin, a word that tempted lots of people to invest. What would it be? | |
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For a long time, the earth has been tainted by severe environmental problems due to the waste people produce in their daily lives. According to a report, by Statistics Korea, on the generation and disposal of living and workplace waste between 2013 and 2019, there was an estimated 380,709kg in 2013 and 481,682kg in 2019, an increase of about 26.4%. As a result, it can be seen that the amount of waste people discard is increasing as time goes on. | |
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‘IU-take my hand’ and ‘EXID-Up and Down’ are songs that you have listened to at least once. What do these songs have in common? They are both examples of “reverse” craze. Unlike ordinary cars, cars that run in the opposite direction are called “reverse driving.” In this connection, when songs that have not been noticed for a long time after their release or songs that have been quiet for a while since their first hit are re-examined for some reason, we call it “reverse.” | |
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Due to COVID-19, the government has implemented strict social distancing rules to prevent the spread of the disease. As a result, the market economy has slowed down considerably, and many young people are in a difficult situation where they struggle to find jobs. These CBT reporters are planning to investigate the situation, as well as the government’s proposed solutions to the problem in this article. -Ed. | |
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The annual College Scholastic Ability Test(CSAT) will be held on December 3rd. It is almost impossible to overstate the importance of this test since it will, to a very large degree, determine the future of many students. With the test just around the corner, the Ministry of Education and 17 municipal and provincial Education Offices announced ‘Measures for Facilitating the Implementation of the CSAT in 2021’ on November 5th. Looking over the implementation measures, we immediately notice that there are lots of new precautions, because this year is the first CSAT in the COVID-19 era. | |
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Nowadays, in South Korea, every age group is focusing on exercise. Recently, there have been newly-coined phrases related to working out like ‘Helchang’, one who was poisoned in the fitness center and ‘Sanlini’, a hiking beginner. Now that a large portion of the population is hitting the gym regularly we can distinguish between various workout cultures. CBT reporter will focus on the workout trend of those in their 20s and 30s. | |
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Millions of people are suffering from coronaphobia. The COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing pandemic and our daily lives have changed unimaginably. The prolonged COVID-19 infection is causing many financial difficulties. As internet penetration and smartphone use increase, uncontacted platforms are drawing attention. Due to coronaphobia and government restrictions, most people are spending more time staying at home compared to the past. | |
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Since COVID-19, people have changed to a life of not meeting other people. All this is quite possibly accelerating the Untact period. The Untact period means that all daily activities are now non-face-to-face events to minimize direct contact between people. Accordingly, people’s consumption trends have also changed radically from before. Especially, this has led people to have simpler and more convenient consumption habits than before. | |
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Traditionally ownership was important. Most people bought everything they needed and used it as long as possible to get maximum value for their money. But, as you will see in this article, consumer habits are beginning to change rapidly. According to market research by ‘Consumer-Insight,’ the ratio of ‘First Car Purchase’ to total vehicle purchase was 16 percent in 2012, but it decreased to 11 percent in 2019. This means consumers who choose to borrow rather than purchase products are on the increase. | |
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According to data from the National Fire department, In Korea, 2,368 people were bitten by dogs and visited the emergency room in 2018. If a dog bites a person, it is possible to make civil and criminal charges. In the case of negligence, the person has to pay up to 5 million won, and in case of negligent homicide, imprisonment for up to 2 years or a fine of up to 7 million won. However, if a dog owner admits his mistake, the dog owner will not be punished under the criminal law, causing the dog owner to be negligent again. | |
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Like the famous saying “Let’s enjoy it while we can,” the phrase “Today we ‘FLEX’ed,” has been spreading like a trend among the new generation and has become a consumption trend. So what does it mean to FLEX? According to Naver’s Korean dictionary, FLEX means ‘Doing warm-up exercises.’ However, the meaning of FLEX in today’s society is different. It refers to the hot vocal rising and falling by a musician which can be interpreted as ‘showing off and boasting’. And the dynamic equivalent for ordinary consumers is interpreted as ‘consumption (of high-priced goods).’ | |
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These days, many things are discarded on a daily basis. In 2015, EURPMAP surveyed 63 countries around the world on plastic usage. According to EURPMAP, South Korea’s annual plastic emissions were 61.97 kilograms per person. The public became aware of the seriousness of the plastic usage problem. Therefore, recycling was implemented to protect the environment at the national and personal levels. However, lots of resources are thrown away, while recycling is limited. This is the major limitation to recycling. | |
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In recent times, South Koreans who traveled to Japan, wore Japanese apparel, or ate Japanese cuisine, could expect a stern rebuke from their neighbors, and they might hear the admonition: ‘Did you really have to do it?’ Around July 2019 banners like ‘No Japan’ and ‘I’m not going there, I’m not buying it,’ were displayed all over the country, and it showed that Koreans were intent on boycotting Japan. This boycott movement was the right thing to do for Koreans, and the result was a closure of some chain stores of a major Japanese retail company in several areas. | |
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Have you heard about the Any Song Challenge? Any Song is the Korean Singer Zico’s latest song and the Any Song Challenge refers to mimicking the Any Song’s choreography and uploading the video to SNS. Nowadays, it has been a big issue that many people, including celebrities, participate in the Any Song Challenge. In fact, many new challenges are created every day and spread through the SNS realm. Challenges are a dime a dozen and they are employed in a variety of ways with all kinds of goals. | |
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People can easily find posters around them that ban the usage of disposable cups in cafes or shops. According to a Ministry of Environment survey, about 26 billion disposable cups are used in Korea annually. Annually, Koreans use more than 600 disposable cups per person on average. In an effort to reduce the amount of plastic waste, the government announced a law that banned using plastic disposable cups in cafes or shops from Aug. 2, 2018. | |
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These days, marriage has become a choice, not a must, like in the lyrics ‘Dating is a necessity, marriage is a choice’ from the song ‘Amor Fati’, and the number of singles is noticeably increasing. According to a survey by the National Statistics Office of Korea, the marriage rate is decreasing every year, and the number of marriages has been fewer than 300,000 since 2016. More and more people are choosing a non-married life on their own, so why are there so many people who choose to be single? | |
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The number of households that have companion animals was 5.74 million among 1.952 billion in Korea in 2017, and it has increased drastically since 2010. Many people are raising animals with affection; however, they sometimes can’t take care of their animals. For these situations, animal care services have prospered. As a result, in Korea, companion animal hotels and pet sitter services have flourished. Companion animal hotels are kennels for animals, and they offer accommodations and food to animals. They are useful to people who are away for long periods of time. Still, many incidents happen as the hotels have been unregulated by laws and staffs have been careless. | |
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Trend Korea, which is a book series that predicts yearly mainstream trends, has become a bestseller, and it elicits explosive reactions from its readers. Trend Korea analyzes the previous year’s consumption trends, and it anticipates the year’s upcoming consumption trends. The readers can get much information about the changes in consumption through this book, and they can prepare themselves for the changes. Trend Korea 2019 analyzed the 2018 consumer trends and selected the cell market as this year’s trend keyword. | |
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